SIGCIS Workshop 2009 (Pittsburgh) - Photo Gallery

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Images from the main conference sessions and from our first full day workshop, on "Michael Mahoney and the Histories of Computing(s)".

Packing a tiny room for the Materiality Meets Practice session... IMG_4299.JPG	..as Jeff Tang discusses the material constraints of the RCA jack interface. IMG_4303.JPG	David Alan Grier intones splendidly on materiality as Jim Cortada looks on... IMG_4306.JPG	...and jaws drop. IMG_4307.JPG
Stephen Patnode receives a travel award at the SIGCIS lunch... IMG_4309.JPG	...where Christophe Lecuyer was awarded the inagural Computer History Museum prize. IMG_4316.JPG	Haigh hosted the event... IMG_4321.JPG	...but David Anderson showed star quality as the book auctioneer. IMG_4322.JPG
Our session on Paths Not Taken and Paths Retraced attracted another sizable audience. IMG_4332.JPG	Paul Ceruzzi's paper on technological trajectories... IMG_4334.JPG	...proved equally fascinating... IMG_4336_0.JPG	...as did Peter Meyer's comments. IMG_4338.JPG
At the workshop, Bill Aspray delivered a moving discussion of Mahoney's life and work in the opening plenary... IMG_4347.JPG	...followed by Gerard Alberts on Mahoney's historiography... IMG_4348.JPG	...to a crowd of around 45 people. IMG_4351.JPG	Our lunch party at Priamati Bros was seated outside... IMG_4356.JPG
..which was a little cold... IMG_4360.JPG	...but the food was seized on with gusto. IMG_4361.JPG	The lucky few sat inside... IMG_4363.JPG	...this famed establishment. IMG_4365.JPG
Returning from lunch... IMG_4368.JPG	...we stopped for a photograph. IMG_4375.JPG	Paul Ceruzzi asked a question in an afternoon session. IMG_4382.JPG	Irina Nikiforova and Corinna Schlombs talked intently during a break... IMG_4384.JPG

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